Well-curb tile.



PATENTED .JULY 19, 1904.

A. MERKLEY. WELL CURB. TILE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

m no a UNITED STATES Patented July 19, 1904:.

ADEN MERKLEY, OF SCHALLER, IOWA.

WELL-CURB TILE.

SPECIFICATION forming ea of Letters Patent No. 765,502, dated July 19,1904.

Application filed March 19, 1904:.

To all whom, it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ADEN MERKLEY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Schaller, county of Sac, State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Well-Curb Tiles, ofwhich the following is a full and clear specification, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspectiveviewoof one section of my tubular tile, and Fig. 2 a vertical sectionalview of two adjacent superposed sections. 1 v

The object of this invention is to provide a composition or plastic tilewhich will be cheap and strong enough to supercede the commonterra-cotta tile now commonly used for curbing wells, as more fullyhereinafter set forth.

I may employ any plastic composition for the purpose; but I preferemploying one consisting of coarse sand, hydraulic cement, crushedoyster -shells, and powdered rosin mixed in suitable proportions. anddampened and then molded into tubular form in any suitable moldingapparatus. After the tile is molded it is removed and allowed to set andharden, which usually requires about eight days, after which it is readyfor use. I find such a tile much stronger and less liable to fracturethan the common baked terra-cotta tile now commonly used.

To give strength to the tile and prevent it cracking, I embed in itduring theprocess of manufacture a series of wire rings a. Attached tothe uppermost ring of the series is a pair of eyes or loops 0, whoseupper ends emerge from the upper end of thetile at or near its inneredge, and thereby serve as a means by which the tile may be lowered intothe well or removed therefrom. These loops Serial No. 198,939- (Nomodel.)

I or eyes are arranged at diametrically opposite points and are inclinedinward toward each other, so as to engage in correspondinglybeveledrecesses cl, formed in the lower inner edge of the tile next above. Inthis way these loops serve also as a means of holding the sections ofthe tile in alinement.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A tubular composition-tile having embedded in it a metallic annularframework and a pair of loops or eyes attached to the upper part of thisframework and emerging at the upper end of the tile for the purpose setforth.

2. A composition tile-section having re- ;cesses formed in itslower endand corresponding loops or eyes embedded in its upper end and projectingabove said upper end, for the purposes set forth.

3. A tubular composition tile-section having, embedded in it astrengthening annular metallic framework, this framework having attachedto'its upper part a pair of oppositelydisposed loops which emerge fromthe top of the tile and are inclined inward toward each other, the lowerinner edge of the tile-section being provided with recessescorresponding in number and position to the loops, so that the loops ofthe section next below will lie in said recesses when thetile-sectionsare superposed. I

In testimony whereof I hereunto aifix my signature, in the presence oftwo witnesses,

' this 11th day of March, 190 1.

ADEN MERKLEY.

